Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight

The Greco-Roman middleweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men. The middleweight was the second-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 73 kilograms (161 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]

Men's middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
Dates? (R32 through semis)
July 25 (final, bronze match)
Competitors21 from 8 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Frithiof Mårtensson  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mauritz Andersson  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anders Andersen  Denmark
1912 →

Competition format

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The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout. Bouts were 15 minutes, unless one wrestler lost by fall (two shoulders on the ground at the same time). Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.

Wrestlers could "take hold only from the head and not lower than the waist." The "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, tripping, and grabbing legs were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall cause the wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, arm up back with bar on, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, hang, and flying mare with palm uppermost.[3]

Results

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Standings

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Place Wrestler Nation
1 Frithiof Mårtensson   Sweden
2 Mauritz Andersson   Sweden
3 Anders Andersen   Denmark
4 Jóhannes Jósefsson   Iceland[4][5][6]
5 Jaap Belmer   Netherlands
Johannes Eriksen   Denmark
Axel Frank   Sweden
Axel Larsson   Denmark
9 Edgar Bacon   Great Britain
Frederick Beck   Great Britain
Gerald Bradshaw   Great Britain
Grigory Dyomin   Russia
Aäron Lelie   Netherlands
Jacobus Lorenz   Netherlands
Miklós Orosz   Hungary
Jaroslav Týfa   Bohemia
17 Stanley Bacon   Great Britain
Josef Bechynê   Bohemia
Harry Challstorp   Sweden
Gerrit Duijm   Netherlands
Wilhelm Grundmann   Germany

Bracket

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First RoundSecond RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
             
 
Fall (5:04)
 
 
  Mauritz Andersson (SWE)
 
Decision
 
  Stanley Bacon (GBR)
 
  Mauritz Andersson (SWE)
 
Decision
 
  Frederick Beck (GBR)
 
  Frederick Beck (GBR)
 
Fall (6:22)
 
  Harry Challstorp (SWE)
 
  Mauritz Andersson (SWE)
 
 
  Johannes Eriksen (DEN)
 
 
Fall (9:30)
 
 
  Johannes Eriksen (DEN)
 
 
  Edgar Bacon (GBR)
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Mauritz Andersson (SWE)
 
 
  Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN)[a][b]
 
 
Fall (12:10)
 
 
  Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN)[a]
 
 
  Miklós Orosz (HUN)
 
 
Fall (2:30)
 
 
  Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN)[a]
 
 
  Axel Frank (SWE)
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Axel Frank (SWE)
 
 
  Georgy Demin (RU1)
 
 
2–0 (decision/fall (6:25))
 
 
  Mauritz Andersson (SWE)  
 
Fall (8:54)
 
  Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)  
 
  Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
 
Fall (7:57)
 
  Josef Bechyně (BOH)
 
  Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
 
 
  Gerald Bradshaw (GBR)
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
 
Fall (18:59)
 
  Axel Larsson (DEN)
 
  Axel Larsson (DEN)
 
Decision
 
  Gerrit Duijm (NED)
 
  Axel Larsson (DEN)
 
 
  Aäron Lelie (NED)
 
 
Fall (24:20)
 
 
  Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
 
 
  Anders Andersen (DEN)  [b]
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Anders Andersen (DEN)
 
 
  Jacobus Lorenz (NED)
 
 
Fall (6:20)
 
 
  Anders Andersen (DEN)
 
Fall (3:54)
 
  Jaap Belmer (NED)
 
  Jaap Belmer (NED)
 
Fall (6:00)
 
  Wilhelm Grundmann (GER)
 
  Jaap Belmer (NED)
 
 
  Jaroslav Týfa (BOH)
 
 
 
 

References

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  1. ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 40.
  3. ^ Official Report, pp. 621–23.
  4. ^ "Johannes JOSEFSSON". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  5. ^ "History". Icelandic Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Jóhannes Jósefsson". Olympedia. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Jósepsson is listed as Icelandic in the Official Report's detailed listing of wrestling results (Cook, p. 333) but Iceland was not one of the 22 National Olympic Committees present at the Games, and was controlled by Denmark at the time. The wrestler is later listed as Danish in the Official Report's list of competitors (Cook, p. 697).
  2. ^ a b Jósepsson broke his arm in his semifinal and was forced to withdraw from the bronze medal match; Andersen received third place.

Sources

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  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Greco-Roman Wrestling 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 29 May 2006.